We won’t see the Detroit Tigers on the interwebs and airwaves until Sunday, but the first game of the exhibition season is finally here. It’s somewhat fitting that Dan Dickerson gets the first call of the year as they welcome the New York Yankees into Joker Marchant Stadium at 1:05 p.m. ET today.
The Tigers will send Reese Olson to the mound for the first start of the year on Saturday, and he’ll presumably have Jake Rogers catching for him. Olson may be fighting for a rotation spot but he has a better case than most, and it’ll be interesting to see how he responds this spring after a very solid 2023 debut.